Linux Command Line Contracts in the City of London

Linux/Unix Command Line Interface (CLI)
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Linux Command Line in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Linux Command Line over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 116 170
Rank change year-on-year +4 +54 -7
Contract jobs citing Linux Command Line 7 11 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.40% 0.50% 0.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.14% 1.63% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 6
10th Percentile £576 £401 £516
25th Percentile £640 £425 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £655 £600 £544
Median % change year-on-year +9.21% +10.34% -4.40%
75th Percentile £733 £650 £613
90th Percentile £751 - £631
Central London median daily rate £655 £600 £544
% change year-on-year +9.21% +10.34% -4.40%

All Generic Skills
City of London

Linux Command Line falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 612 676 1,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 34.85% 30.77% 35.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 462 889
10th Percentile £363 £276 £350
25th Percentile £475 £425 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% -8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £750
90th Percentile £800 £849 £861
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £605
% change year-on-year - -4.96% +5.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 12
10th Percentile £23.80 £12.75 £16.97
25th Percentile £26.50 £14.38 £31.31
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £43.25
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -46.82% -9.90%
75th Percentile £65.50 £27.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £86.20 £36.60 -
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £23.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +26.39% -34.29% -27.08%

Linux Command Line
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Linux Command Line as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Linux Command Line in the City of London

Linux Command Line
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Linux Command Line in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Linux Command Line in the City of London

Linux Command Line
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Linux Command Line in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Linux Command Line in the City of London

Linux Command Line
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Linux Command Line in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Linux Command Line in the City of London

Linux Command Line
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (57.14%) Apache
1 4 (57.14%) Apache Spark
1 4 (57.14%) Jupyter
2 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Power Platform
3 3 (42.86%) AWS
4 2 (28.57%) Azure AKS
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Event Grid
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (28.57%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
4 2 (28.57%) GCP
4 2 (28.57%) IaaS
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (28.57%) PaaS
4 2 (28.57%) SaaS
4 2 (28.57%) Serverless
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (57.14%) Apache Hive
2 4 (57.14%) Delta Lake
2 4 (57.14%) Power BI
2 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) JIRA
2 4 (57.14%) Git
2 4 (57.14%) RStudio
3 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
3 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
3 1 (14.29%) Gatling
3 1 (14.29%) GitLab
3 1 (14.29%) Hamcrest
3 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 1 (14.29%) JUnit
3 1 (14.29%) Postman
3 1 (14.29%) Selenium
3 1 (14.29%) Serenity BDD
3 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Finance
4 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365 Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Cloud Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) JSON
1 4 (57.14%) pydantic
1 4 (57.14%) PySpark
1 4 (57.14%) YAML
2 2 (28.57%) ARM Templates
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (14.29%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Data Structures
1 4 (57.14%) Reference Data
2 2 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (28.57%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Windows
3 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) Scrum
3 4 (57.14%) Data Ingestion
3 4 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (57.14%) Data Security
3 4 (57.14%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 3 (42.86%) DevOps
5 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
5 2 (28.57%) Cost Management
5 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
5 2 (28.57%) High Availability
5 2 (28.57%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (28.57%) Migration
5 2 (28.57%) Zero Trust
6 1 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
6 1 (14.29%) API Testing
6 1 (14.29%) QA Automation
6 1 (14.29%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) Bash
2 4 (57.14%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) Scala
3 2 (28.57%) Bicep
3 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
4 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (85.71%) GDPR
2 2 (28.57%) SOC 2
3 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
1 2 (28.57%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Databricks
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Splunk